skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no need. In Japan, one must fully wash oneself before entering the bath; if you had diarrhea, say, or some other pressing need to void, it would come out before you got into the bath itself.
We are not paid to “code” we are paid to use our knowledge of the technology ecosystem to add business value - either save the company money or to make the company money.

Back in the 2000s for me part of that job was to lead the buildout of a data center with a SAN that took up a whole room to hold 4TBs. Now I do that with 5 lines of yaml in a CloudFormation template.

My job was not “automated out of existence” by not having to provision a data center as part of it.
> annual household earnings decline by $4,230. Is this a huge effect?

Yes. Median household income is something around $70K, and rural households are not making anywhere near median household income. If we don't think it's a big effect, then we shouldn't mind sending them $4.5K checks every year to make up for it.

It's an effect large enough to drive 3/100 people affected into poverty.
A small Italian city became a model for mental health care
Their comment is on a specific kind of person ("those that treat life as 'working and slacking'"), not all people.
CWT 2024 Retrospective – predictions with Claude
NBA teams are not all playing the same way
>Should we bring back the public bathhouse for the sake of sustainability?

I do not know, but the article is very interesting.

In ancient times bath houses were disease incubators but a lot of socializing also occurred, almost like golf is (was) these days.

Also a lot of powerful people would make important decisions while socializing at a Bathhouses in old times. Curious how Bathhouses would play out these days due to that and the laws in modern society.
I honestly don't remember for sure, but I believe it was one row per comment with a list of everyone who voted on it. So you could quickly get the answer to "did user X vote on comment Y?"

And of course the answer from a bloom filter was either "no" or "probably yes?", which was good enough to then do an actual lookup of that person's vote on that comment.
Replace every occurrence of AI with "outsourcing to India" in what your friends and brother told you. Then you will have been told the exact same thing everyone in the 2000's was told.
El Salvador to Change Bitcoin Law as Part of New IMF Deal: Financial Times
what metaphor was it called back when they allowed far-left hate speech but censored, shadow-banned or otherwise slowed stories that their secret thought-control departments didn't like? what would you call that?
You’re right. I meant survivorship bias, where the survivors are the events that are bad enough for them to be visible to the public. Other events that are addressed by a continuity plan are “killed” and therefore aren’t visible.
We do. We just enjoy it when wages are driven down, because as investors and owners, we are the beneficiaries of that.
Eh, it comes down to a combination of putting time and effort into mastering the tools of your craft and having docs open on a 2nd monitor as needed. Put in enough reps and you just organically memorize huge chunks of language/framework details. As for finding function declarations on the fly, have grep will travel.
There are far more people running llama.cpp, various image generators, etc. than there are people developing that code. Even when the "users" are corporate entities, they're not necessarily doing any development in excess of integrating the existing code with their other systems.

We're also likely to see a stronger swing away from "do inference in the cloud" because of the aligned incentives of "companies don't want to pay for all that hardware and electricity" and "users have privacy concerns" such that companies doing inference on the local device will have both lower costs and a feature they can advertise over the competition.

What this is waiting for is hardware in the hands of the users that can actually do this for a mass market price, but there is no shortage of companies wanting a piece of that. In particular, Apple is going to be pushing that hard and despite the price they do a lot of volume, and then you're going to start seeing more PCs with high-VRAM GPUs or iGPUs with dedicated GDDR/HBM on the package as their competitors want feature parity for the thing everybody is talking about, the cost of which isn't actually that high, e.g. 40GB of GDDR6 is less than $100.
'We are not a retro company': Sega prepares to go back to the future
*Most* engineers don't quit to go into management.

It's simply not mathematically possible. The number of management positions available is very limited.
Yes I know. You get the same effect with type systems that are closer to formal verification. Something you know is actually fine but the prover isn't quite smart enough to realise until you shift the puzzle pieces around so they are just so.
Tridactyl has a native extension that lets you run external programs, such as popping up a gvim window for text inputs.
Robert De Niro Creates the First Vertical Film Studio
We had 2 grocery stores and I think Walmart put one of them out of business. However, the selection was much larger and it was a boost to local businesses because fewer people needed to travel to the next town over for supplies after Walmart came to town. It also employed significantly more people. I'm no fan of Walmart and their cut throat practices, but it hasn't been all bad for everyone.
It's pretty easy to test when it makes coding mistakes as well. It's also really good at "Hey that didn't work, here's my error message."
How is it much worse than other indirect taxes? At least it provides benefits that VAT or sales taxes don’t like allows central banks to stabilize the financial system and reduce the outfall from boom and bust cycles (which were much worse pre 1830s).

Also if we look back price stability under the gold standard is a myth. Prices might have been broadly similar in 1800 and 1900 but there were some massive ups and downs in between that lasted decades. Predictable and stable inflation seems like a much smaller issue
No, it doesn’t. These people receiving benefits and working at Walmart would almost certainly be entitled to more benefits if they were unemployed.
Laurence Tratt's paper Virtual machine warmup blows hot and cold [1] paper has been posted several times and never really discussed. It covers this problem for Java VMs and also presents a benchmarking methodology.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3133876
I find it hard to believe that Shakespeare would spell the same wird dyfferntli as if heez noom is Sheikhspier een uh deefirind koontri.
Yeah this is probably someone that doesn't like type script or type hints in python. If you're slinging dynamically typed code for your own personal project, go nuts, but if you're working with a team that 'typing noise' really helps
Most cheap foods with chocolate already have little cocoa in it. The essence of chocolate is made up of three parts, a sweetener like sugar, an oil with a high melting point, and cocoa oil has one of the highest melting points out of plant oils, but is often mixed with cheaper oils like palm oil or coconut oil, which have a much higher melting point than most oils, but still not as high as that of cocoa oil. And the third part is the cocoa solids. As far as I know cocoa beans are both fermented and roasted. I think there are other plants suitable for making something similar to chocolate, turns out mango seed oil has a melting point similar to that of cocoa oil.
i love opening up diagrams.net and working on designs. i think its possible one of my favourite things to do as a programmer. possibly more than actually coding.
I think the idea is that very powerful IDEs and other tools make it very easy to manage complex and disorganized codebases, the downside could be that nobody would care about cleaning up that codebase. At the same time powerful IDEs make it somewhat easier to clean up messy codebases so living in a mess is a choice.
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I haven't used an inkjet for years but it's useful to print a few pages here and there on a laser printer for reference.
I feel like the patterns are more or less the same but the cycles are getting shorter and more pronounced.

I met the son of a family friend today, he's 13, already has an opinion about the Israel/Palestine war and spent $500 in roblox so far, they're not wealthy at all. Back in my days I was stuck in the free to play parts of mmorpgs (or had to beg for months for a $5 monthly membership), playing tf2 (free) and had 0 political ideas or even knew people who cared about politics
It was very clear from the context that I was not talking about Forth or Assembly.
> But let's be honest, you normal people can smell when someone isn't part of their tribe, even with a good mask on.

I am a long way from normal and it worked for me. People genuinely thought I was confident and outgoing simply for turning up and chatting, and eventually it began to be a lot more true. Even if I had to leave earlier than most to find some quiet.

Any shared activity that has enough participants has a role for people like us -- helping set up/tear down, organising, making coffees and snacks (the kitchen is an easy place to be), taking photographs, shuttling messages between organisers. Any shared activity has little bubbles of social grouping, fun and friendship around these functional parts. At a music thing: sound engineers, merch tents, collecting donations on the door -- lots of little bubbles of odd people finding their own speed.

As long as you take time to relax and enjoy it as well -- I find this part difficult -- then there is a life for you. For me, I was a photographer, I helped with the web and email side, I helped with AV, whatever. I became indispensable. And then I found my people around the edges of it. I struggle again now, post-lockdown-fragmentation and a bout of depression, so I stepped back from active involvement in the same way, but I know my people are out there and they still value me just for turning up.

Try not to assume there are "normal people" who want to lock you out. It's cynical, a little rude frankly. It is also a form of fundamental attribution error. Any large social functioning/gathering of adults is a gathering of people who have the same need for adult friendship and connection as you; many of them are lonely at other times. Why else would it even be happening?

Side note: as true as the "sportsball" clichés might be, stop thinking that. Never, ever, ever say it out loud.

If it's not for you (it isn't for me), so what? Never murder an enthusiasm. It's rude.
I can't tell if you're trolling or serious. If you're serious, I think the problem may be on your end, because I don't see that latency, and when I worked there, we didn't see that latency either.

My average latency on reddit is about 150ms, most of that network transit time. Some calls are slow, yes, but on average site wide when I worked there is was about 300ms (yes we measured it).

> Is Python just really really slow compared to LISP?

Now I'm almost certain you're trolling. Reddit was originally written in LISP. It was rewritten to Python for a massive speedup. Then we rewrote parts of it in C for another speedup. And now I'm pretty sure they have Rust and Golang too.

Also, I'm pretty sure HN isn't in Arc anymore.
when you re generationally deprived of real estate heroin, you end up with stock market cocaine

it s all partly gambling but different strokes for different generations
Make your own meetup. Honest advice, everybody sort of sees you as the guy to become friends with if you're the leader.
Need for a different idea depends on the full size. If there are 10 shared available for $10, then nearly anyone could buy them all up and so all ideas are saturated at just one poor person. However if the idea is for a large company there are thousands of shared traded every day, and so if your idea is the company will go up in value almost nobody could buy enough shares to make a difference - even rich would struggle to find enough free money to move the value of the company by $1.

In the market there are ideas on all levels, some really are the $100 trade that will make money but that is the most possible to trade. However many ideas are on the large end where there is plenty of room for more people. If you think a fortune 100 company is under valued by $10/share you can make a ton of money (assuming you are right of course) and safely tell all your friends without affecting your ability to make money.
> "It's hard when the overarching belief is that the unemployed is unemployed 100% because of their own free will. Bad business conditions mean no jobs, and that's often not a worker's fault.

There's another point, which is even more sinister. The unemployed offer liquidity in the employment pool, which offer more flexibility for the growth of the machine. Local communities that are more self-sufficient would want to take care of their own. The emergent properties of the anonymous machine see unemployment as a variable to be optimized.
Apollo: An Exploration of Video Understanding in Large Multimodal Models
It's perfectly possible for OpenAI to run the model (or prove others the means to run it) without storing queries/outputs for future. I expect Epoch AI would insist on this. Perhaps OpenAI would lie about it, but that's opening up serious charges.
>> If there is an IDE available that works well out of the box, I'll certainly use whatever automation is available. But often it is broken, incomplete, slow, inaccurate, etc. ...

I think you are unduly harsh here. As a longtime emacs user and who switched to IDE recently (ones that come from JetBrains) my experience hasn't been what you mention. Yes there is a bit of time (not huge) to get adjusted to the shortcuts and efficiently navigate the code, but post that the IDE ecosystem is not as broken as you allude to.
I do, but only for third space reasons. Bowling^WBathing alone.
I used to think I was a bad designer, because I often have to redesign things. Then I found folks who don't even do that...
Ask HN: Linux on Snapdragon X Laptops?
I'm considering buying one due to their reasonable price and impressive power/performance ratio. So I wonder if anyone has been able to run a Linux desktop on Snapdragon X laptops?
It's using a chrome instance to access JS enabled sites.
I guess what you are saying would probably have been said by AI skeptics in the 70s, but LLMs provided a quantum leap. Yes, progress is often asymptotic and governed by diminishing returns, but discontinuous breakthrough must also be factored in.
Every single woman needs to, on average, have a bit more than 2 children to have a stable population. Fewer than that and your population (once it shares the same fertility rate across generations) will begin changing at a scalar of fertility_rate/2 each ~20 years. So a fertility rate of 1 = 50% decline every 20 years. And it's exponential - that decline never stops or slows until you go extinct or start having children again.

But in this case one frustrating thing is people don't know what they don't know. My wife was quite lukewarm on having children but shortly after our first she wanted at least two more. They really change you in ways that are impossible to describe without cliche, and I think this is, by nature, even more true for the mother.
Yeah, I don't get it. Even if the appraisal cost $500 that represents 4-5 months of extra pmi payments. It's not clear from the article, but it sounds like the author might not have had the 32k sitting around liquid, so they probably ended up paying for these months anyway. If they took the 32k out of the market that's even worse. I can't imagine choosing option one over option two unless you're unsure if your house has gained enough value or appraisals cost many thousands of dollars. But then I can't imagine getting a house loan with pmi in the first place. This is why everyone says to put 20% down.
Autocomplete:

It's nice, but using non-shitty libraries with good documentation is nicer.

Language servers:

Bloat.

Copilot:

Why bother with AI when I'm good at writing buggy code myself?

Remembering types and fields:

Don't trust memory. Write documentation—if only for yourself if not for your colleagues.

The language server go-to-definition feature:

That doesn't require a language server, just a cross-reference; see also ctags, bloat (above).
Wow, I've always thought that company merged into half of Hewlett-Packard. I'm very surprised to learn just now, after all these years, that they're completely separate.
I put that blurb into ChatGPT and asked it to translate the corporate speak into normal English:

Lexmark makes cloud-based printing and smart device technologies to help businesses achieve their goals faster. They use reliable technology and industry knowledge to help companies improve, turning information into useful insights, data into decisions, and analysis into action.
AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
Do you already have a user base? Aggressively pursue them and give promos for outreach/gift accounts/etc.

I understand not wanting to rely on ads, but extremely targeted ads for the most important personas may still be a good idea. If your product solves a real problem for people, you should get in front of them.
The only word left in my tiny brain after reading the author’s thoughts on css is: masochism.
You might have learned the wrong lesson there, if your goal is to build wealth. But it’s a good idea to prevent losses
I've been thinking that as well but it hasn't given me any major issues in a year. At this point the machine is getting long in the tooth and power efficiency is crap and I'm planning to replace it this coming year.
I guess you mean:

first published English dictionary

and

It wasn't uncommon / It was common
It's like the computer history museum that closed
The level of reductionism of that comment is honestly quite amusing given the topic. Maybe we can use it as an unintended warning of not going too far in the pursuit of simplicity.
The difference between a heap allocated string (String), a static string literal embedded in the binary (&str), and a stack allocated string ([char], but this is more common in C than Rust) is the simplest introduction to manually managed memory.

The complications have nothing to do with Rust but with how computers manage and allocate memory. You might as well also skip C, C++, Zig, and every other language which gives you fine-tuned access to the stack and heap, because you'll run into the same concept.
There are literal hundreds (thousands?) of philosophical schools for “meaning of life”. It’s really not a new question, and there won’t be a right answer, ever. Trying to convince someone that it is the only route to find a meaning just sounds a bit funny for anyone who watches it from the sidelines.

My question, once again, is why tech circles started focusing on this and pushing it as ideology just recently? Wasn’t a thing in 2010s, people more or less respected personal choices as long as it doesn’t harm others directly.
My point is that no, it's not illegal based on type of aircraft - it's legal if you have the proper pilot license. And it's not hard to get it (few weekends of study).
If we could talk to animals, then, on the positive side we could explain things to them like “watch for traffic when you cross this road” but we could also deceive them. A lot of what hunters and farmers have done since time immemorial has used our superior - or maybe just different - intelligence to exploit or trap animals, but imagine the chaos we could wreak if we could literally argue them into behaving against their best interests. Not everyone would use this ability responsibly, especially if there was money to be made.
The user has to choose to install it, Asus have just pushed an update that changes the skin for the season, but the same 'bar' was there before if the user chose to install that utility, it just had a plain undecorated switch icon.

The 'Armory Crate' software has long been unrecommended by most, because it's just not that useful. It being malware because Asus themed it for christmas is a stretch.

Largely overblown outrage
Horrible example of victim blaming here.
I am using it since couple of months and it works really fine.
The UI is improved a lot since the first release.
Tagging is not the best, but it depends a lot on the AI response
That is my memory of Walmart coming to town as well: good riddance to those overprice stores with bad service and poor selection that we only went to because driving to the big city mall where we could get reasonable prices took time and so it was a big event that took most of your Saturday, while we could get into them quickly (if they had what we really needed)

Farmers and rural dwellers everywhere made regular trips to the largest city near them (sometimes a two hour drive) just to get selection. Mail order only filled some of that need (online is just mail order on the internet)
By this standard we don't have much evidence based anything in medicine. The process of finding a treatment that works for you by just trying things and see how it goes is true for lots of illnesses. My MiL tried 20+ different drugs for her chronic fatigue until she found one that worked.

Once you've been diagnosed with MDD and decide you're willing to try a medication the process of finding one that works and has tolerable side-effects starts. I don't really consider that to be "not evidence based." If you keep a medical
journal while you try different drugs you're arguably doing science.
The books that I feel compelled to finish are those for our neighborhood book club. The household that picks furnishes dinner, so I feel that there is a contract there. (Not every one does. "Well, I've been really busy, and I listened to most of it.") This has led me to finish a few rotten books that I'd never have gone past page 20 on if I had encountered them at a beach house.

But you raise an interesting point. I really like The Hall of Uselessness by Simon Leys, but have I read every essay in it? I think so, but am not sure.
This comes up from time to time and I always struggle to succinctly make the point I'm about to try and make again here:

Your brain is a good natural limit on complexity. I'm not saying there aren't goals that merit tools to manage complexity beyond what your brain could, only that you should be extremely reticent to unshackle that monster, because it's more likely to eat you than do your bidding.

Or more practically (and maybe more of a polemic): if you're maxing out the capabilities of your IDE on an average project, you goofed! We built postgresql, sqlite, Redis, Linux, Go, etc without IDEs.
I'm assuming this isn't a random hypothetical but I don't know what shoe company you are talking about.
North Korean hacker group behind DMM Bitcoin's cryptocurrency leak
Rigrep and fzf in bash and vim.
> If you want to make the case that the artisan shouldn't use tape-measures, laser levels, power sanders, power saws, dust masks, wood glue, clamps, they should use a pencil behind the ear, a thumb's width and a handsaw because that's how they learn the True Nature of Wood(tm) then maybe you're just posturing and gatekeeping, or have some sort of Amish-style religion.

Or you're William Morris, who was kind of ridiculous and pretentious, but was making a valid point at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_movement
for me "artisan" devs see coding as a craft, avoiding modern tools to "stay sharp" or stay closer to the metal. its cool admirable but really not adapted for complex modern systems. Tools exist for a reason—maximizing productivity and reducing cognitive load.
I like the converse: pay certain people to NOT reproduce.
Because they have a common goal. The challenge for atheists is to find group of people with the same goal as theirs.